The Optimal Depletion of Exhaustible Resources
Author: Hassan Benchekroun
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9782893825922
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Author: Hassan Benchekroun
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9782893825922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anthony C. Fisher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1981-11-30
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521243063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the major themes of the economic literature on natural resources and the environment. It is designed to bring the reader, in part with the aid of a unified model of optimal resource use, to the frontiers of the discipline, using only elementary mathematical models. Features special to exhaustible and renewable resources, including the problems posed by market imperfections, are treated as extensions of the basic model. The theoretical discussion is enriched with examples and applications, including a systematic investigation of the behaviour of resource reserves, costs, prices, and substitution possibilities. Substantial attention to environmental, as well as extractive, resources is a distinctive aspect of this book. The author describes methods of estimating the environmental costs of resource development and other projects, and presents some key empirical findings. Policy instruments to protect the environment, such as taxes, subsidies, marketable permits, and direct controls, are carefully analysed from a welfare-theoretic point of view.
Author: Tapan Mitra
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 5
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: P. S. Dasgupta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780521297615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA book on the economics of exhaustible resources requires no justification. A long book does. The purist will find disquieting our two-asset, constant population model with which we analyse growth possibilities in an economy with exhaustible resources.
Author: Tapan Mitra
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 5
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dov Bobrovitch
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anthony C. Fisher
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-06-26
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 3030489582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, based on lectures on natural and environmental resource economics, offers a nontechnical exposition of the modern theory of sustainability in the presence of resource scarcity. It applies an alternative take on environmental economics, focusing on the economics of the natural environment, including development, computation, and potential empirical importance of the concept of option value, as opposed to the standard treatment of the economics of pollution control. The approach throughout is primarily conceptual and theoretical, though empirical estimation and results are sometimes noted. Mathematics, ranging from elementary calculus to more formal dynamic optimization, is used, especially in the early chapters on the optimal management of exhaustible and renewable resources, but results are always given an economic interpretation. Diagrams and numerical examples are also used extensively. The first chapter introduces the classical economists as the first resource economists, in their discussion of the implications of a limited natural resource base (agricultural land) for the evolution of the wider economy. A later chapter returns to the same concerns, along with others stimulated by the energy and environmental “crises” of the 1970s and beyond. One section considers alternative measures of resource scarcity and empirical findings on their behavior over time. Another introduces the modern concept of sustainability with an intuitive development of the analytics. A chapter on the dynamics of environmental management motivates the concept of option value, shows how to compute it, then demonstrates its importance in an illustrative empirical example. The closing chapter, on climate change, first projects future changes and potential catastrophic impacts, then discusses the policy relevance of both option value and discounting for the very long run. This book is intended for resource and environmental economists and can be read by interested graduate and advanced undergraduate students in the field as well.
Author: G. M. Heal
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 706
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese 27 articles on the economics of exhaustible resources date from 1931 to 1991.
Author: R. Davison
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Published: 1977
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: P. Lasserre
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2013-09-27
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 1136469982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is concerned with the issue of long-term depletion of non-renewable natural resources.